Pirate Bay lawyer calls for retrial — A lawyer representing one of the men convicted in the Pirate Bay trial has called for a retrial after reports that the judge was a member of the same copyright protection organisations as several of the main entertainment industry representatives.

A Cyber-Attack on an American City — Just after midnight on Thursday, April 9, unidentified attackers climbed down four manholes serving the Northern California city of Morgan Hill and cut eight fiber cables in what appears to have been an organized attack on the electronic infrastructure of an American city.

Apple Reports Second Quarter Results — Best March Quarter Revenue and Earnings in Apple History — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 second quarter ended March 28, 2009. The Company posted revenue of $8.16 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.21 billion, or $1.33 per diluted share.

A Second Market Is Emerging — Claire Cain Miller has a story in today's NY Times about Second Market, a NYC based company that makes markets in illiquid securities. She reports that they will shortly be launching a marketplace for private company stock. — I've written about this idea in the past and I think it is badly needed.

A Company Plans to Market Illiquid Assets — SAN FRANCISCO — Founders of start-ups and the venture capitalists who finance them have two ways to get their money out of the company: sell it to another company or sell shares to the public. — The market for initial public offerings has dried …

Joe Biden's Problem with Music — A different perspective on the RIAA's takeover of the Department of Justice — If there's something to be said about Vice Presidents, it's that they can wield unlikely power. They may be just background figures at times, men who are simply one heartbeat away from becoming President themselves.

Tweetbomb - A Tweet To Shake The World — A simple message, less than 140 characters, is sent out to followers around the world and within hours, perhaps minutes, more than 100 million people have been mobilized to act. The message might instruct those who read it to look at a certain website …

Microsoft: The four elephants in the room — Microsoft's fiscal third quarter results will be notable on four fronts: Potential layoffs, the impact on weak PC demand, the effect of netbooks and how Windows 7 may impact the June quarter. — Wall Street is expecting Microsoft …

Fun with YouTube's Audio Content ID System — Anybody who hasn't been living under a rock knows about YouTube. It's a video site built entirely around user-submitted content. Anybody can film anything, upload it to the site, and anybody on the Internet can watch it if they so choose.

Lost laptops cost companies $50k apiece — Encryption no match for corporate accounting — Free whitepaper - It's all about the salesperson: Taking advantage of Web 2.0 — A single lost or stolen laptop costs a business an average of nearly $50,000. At least, that's the word …

First Look: We Take YouTube RealTime For A Spin — Earlier today we reported on YouTube's plans to roll out a new real-time product that adds a new social layer to YouTube, allowing friends to share the videos they're watching with each other in real time, without having to turn to outside chat programs or Twitter.

Rural Riddle: Do Jobs Follow Broadband Access? — Two Hamlets That Got High-Speed Lines Show Wildly Different Results — In the southwest corner of Virginia, where tobacco farms meet the Appalachian Mountains, two towns desperately in need of an economic boost were given what many had hoped …

Music rights are killing good TV shows — Mike Masnick at TechDirt has repeatedly identified cases where the difficulty of obtaining rights to music played in TV shows is either holding up or killing attempts to reissue those shows on DVD. WKRP in Cincinnati is probably the best-known example …